30 July 2025
Australia employs 'straddle' diplomacy with China and the US
The approach is not doctrinal, but is about speaking frankly to both Washington and Beijing.
30 July 2025
'Unequivocal': Israeli human rights orgs describe Gaza assault as 'genocide' for the first time
Genocide is never supposed to happen, said the executive director of B'Tselem, one of Israel's leading human rights groups. Not here. Not anywhere. Not at all.
30 July 2025
Roundtable warning: When they say ‘modelling’ grab your bulldust detector
The warm-up for next month’s three-day economic roundtable has begun, and this week we’ll start hearing from worthies who know exactly what we should do to improve our productivity. What’s more, they have the modelling to prove it.
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30 July 2025
Silencing the mandate: US sanctions on Francesca Albanese a symbol of international law’s twilight
Imagine a scene worthy of Orwell’s worst nightmare: a United Nations envoy, appointed to report on human rights violations, excellently performing in her job despite formidable difficulties, and met with sanctions by one of the world’s most powerful nations. But this isn’t satire; it’s July 2025.
30 July 2025
Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life-changing
“Earning a humanities degree was not only life-changing, in terms of opening up a world of knowledge otherwise beyond my reach, it also turns out to have been enormously productive – for me and many, many people around me,” said Tim Winton this week. “My little arts degree has created jobs and cultural value for over 40 years.”
30 July 2025
Thai-Cambodia clash and the Thai military’s short leash
The flare-up in fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in the Dangrek Ranges reflects a longstanding disagreement about border demarcation.
30 July 2025
No Indonesian high-speed rail wizardry for Oz
When PM Anthony Albanese was flying home after six days in Beijing, the Great Wall and a panda zoo, he told a newspaper that “Australia could learn from China’s fast-rail network. The People's Republic already has more than 45,000 kilometres of high-speed rail connecting 500 cities. We have zilch.
30 July 2025
The essential reader on Donald Trump
To learn the whole dreadful story of Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency, one could not do better than to read Thom Hartmann’s forthcoming book, “The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink”.
30 July 2025
LDP’s historic electoral defeat upends Japan’s politics
Japan’s political landscape changed significantly on 20 July 2025 with the triennial upper house elections delivering a stinging blow to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner, Komeito.
30 July 2025
International law not only abused – but abandoned
As the world watches the destruction of Gaza unfold in real time, the legitimacy of international law faces a crisis more profound than any it has seen since its post-WWII codification.
29 July 2025
Guilty of the 'crime' of being Palestinian. Punishment: execution
My long solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians is well-known. I have written two books and countless articles on this topic, and have spoken publicly about it for years.
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30 July 2025
'Unequivocal': Israeli human rights orgs describe Gaza assault as 'genocide' for the first time
Genocide is never supposed to happen, said the executive director of B'Tselem, one of Israel's leading human rights groups. Not here. Not anywhere. Not at all.
30 July 2025
Silencing the mandate: US sanctions on Francesca Albanese a symbol of international law’s twilight
Imagine a scene worthy of Orwell’s worst nightmare: a United Nations envoy, appointed to report on human rights violations, excellently performing in her job despite formidable difficulties, and met with sanctions by one of the world’s most powerful nations. But this isn’t satire; it’s July 2025.
30 July 2025
International law not only abused – but abandoned
As the world watches the destruction of Gaza unfold in real time, the legitimacy of international law faces a crisis more profound than any it has seen since its post-WWII codification.
29 July 2025
Guilty of the 'crime' of being Palestinian. Punishment: execution
My long solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians is well-known. I have written two books and countless articles on this topic, and have spoken publicly about it for years.
29 July 2025
Mass Palestinian starvation used as a weapon of war – Bob Carr
Former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr has compared the situation in Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto, and urged the Government to move with the French on Palestinian statehood. He made his comments in an interview with ABC Radio National Breakfast host Sally Sara.
29 July 2025
'Everything beautiful in their lives is gone': US physicians read aloud the searing testimony of desperate doctors and patients in Gaza
“I have a cold. And in one hour, I’ll have finished a 24-hour shift, heartbroken again. I lost a cardiac patient because we had no medication.
29 July 2025
Activists read out names of 17,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza
The names of the 17,000 Palestinian children who have been killed in Gaza by Israel over the past 22 months were read aloud outside Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.
28 July 2025
Israeli Knesset hosts conference on plan to 'Occupy Gaza' and 'Relocate Gazans'
There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one, wrote Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz this past weekend.
Israel's war against Gaza
Media coverage of the war in Gaza since October 2023 has spread a series of lies propagated by Israel and the United States. This publication presents information, analysis, clarification, views and perspectives largely unavailable in mainstream media in Australia and elsewhere.
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30 July 2025
Australia employs 'straddle' diplomacy with China and the US
The approach is not doctrinal, but is about speaking frankly to both Washington and Beijing.
29 July 2025
How Chinese diaspora voters reshape Australian and US politics
Chinese diaspora communities in Australia and the US both face racism and loyalty suspicions under China threat narratives, yet their voting has diverged.
26 July 2025
The future of surveillance tech is already here – in the US, not China
Chinese citizens enjoy public safety in exchange for compromised privacy. In the United States, people are facing an increasingly unchecked state.
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